Excursion tour plan

1 day. Paleolithic museum in the village of Yudinovo-Ostrich farm-Unique church in the village of Elionka

• 11:10 - Meeting with the Tour Guide
• 11-30 boarding the bus. + Lunchboxes with a dish according to the Bryansk recipe(During the trip our guide will tell you about the history, traditions and culture of the Bryansk land;)

• 13-00 v.Yudinovo. (distance 111km) In this small village there is the only museum in Europe devoted to the Paleolithic. Youdinovo upper paleolithic site, the age of which is 15 thousand years. This archaeological monument, accidentally discovered by local collective farmers in 1934. Under the roof of the pavilion are the remains of two structures of ancient mammoth hunters' dwellings. From the viewing platforms you can see two groups of bones, clearly preserving the outlines of the structures of the two dwellings. There is a unique opportunity to get acquainted with life and way of life of our distant ancestors. The tour around the museum is very fascinating. Our guide plunges us into the ancient times. The story is fascinating and very interesting! Museum-reserve Paleolithic has no analogues in the world.

• 14-00 Ostrich farm "Good Ostrich" Starodubsky area (distance 55 km.) Amazing by atmosphere place! The owner is a former military man with a sparkling sense of humor! Here we will learn the peculiarities of keeping ostriches and observe these exotic, for our strip, birds Animals live here freely in great love and care! 30 ostriches, 6 camels, donkeys, goats, calves, pigs, ducks, rare breeds of chickens. I think that's not the whole list of the farm's happy residents! The animals are well-groomed, happy, fed and very friendly (except for the ostriches). Apparently, these birds are pretty willful creatures. All of the animals on the farm are allowed to be fed and stroked! Most of all impressed by the cute, smiling camel, who wanted to lick all the guests who came to see him!

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• 15-30 Lunch at the farm After a walk around the lake, which according to the farmer is teeming with fish, we were treated to a delicious ostrich egg omelet! It's like nothing you've ever tasted before! Just imagine, one ostrich egg weighs ~ 1.5 kg! And homemade ostrich cutlets are a masterpiece of culinary art! For dessert we'll have a homemade cake with goat's milk or something stronger)
  
  
• 17-00 с. Jelionka (distance 38 km) the village was founded by the Old Believers. The main attraction: the Old Orthodox Church of St. George the Victorious. Inside the church there is incredible acoustics, which you can not find in every concert hall. Preserved painting of the dome in the form of God the Father of hosts, presumably, there used to be paintings of sails, but at present their fate is unknown. There is also a cross preserved, over which there are traces of attempts to tear it down by German soldiers.
  The rector of the church, Alexander, will tell us about the temple and the Old Believers in a very interesting way, then we will go up to the bell tower, where we will admire the gorgeous view, and we will also have a master class in bell ringing! And we'll also be treated to baked goods according to old recipes. Besides the church in Jelionka, the architecture of the small houses, real wells, very interesting school building, and the former bristle factory of the Gusevs, by the way, their graves in the local cemetery are also impressive!
• 19-30 Check-in at Novozybkov hotel;
• 20-00 In the evening there will be songs around the fire, and interesting conversations about the traditions of the Bryansk region;

day 2 Novozybkov-Zlynka

There are some district centers in Bryansk region, which can give a head start to many towns of the Golden Ring and even to the pearl of wooden architecture of Siberia - the glorious city of Tomsk. And all this is in three hours drive from Bryansk.

• 7-30 Breakfast
• 8-30 Sightseeing tour of NOVOZYBKOV - a city that is among the ten most underrated small towns in Russia, the unofficial capital of Russian Old Believers.
  We will walk its streets, admire the merchant buildings, learn how two Old Believers religions simultaneously coexist in the city under conditions of high radiation.
• 9-30 In Novozybkovo we will visit the largest wooden church in the Bryansk region (and the second largest in the Central Federal District) - the Old Believer Church of the Nativity of Christ. There we will meet the most real walking landmark of Novozybkov, Alexey Belas. He will tell us about Old Believers - their history, way of life, will dispel some myths about Old Believers, will tell us about the unique icon painting school, which existed on the territory of the Bryansk region in the XIX century. And will give a master-class on singing by the books, dated back to the 18th century. But that is not the end of our acquaintance with Alexey Belas. He is not only an Old Believer, but also an amateur ethnographer and the owner of the largest private collection of towels and folk costumes in Russia. His collection was collected from all over the Bryansk region and you can find this only in the St. Petersburg Museum of Ethnography. You'll be able to put on a real suit of the 19th century. And try your hand at the loom
• 12-00 Lunch: we will taste dishes of the Old Believers' cuisine: pshonik and chladnik and for dessert we will have mandelki with uzvar.
• 13-30 г. ZLYNKA - the lace pearl of the southwest, which has preserved the layout of the old sloboda - as strange as it may sound - thanks to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. How did it happen? We will tell. At the same time we will have a unique opportunity to see how the Old Believers' settlement looked like in a single, intact ensemble. The unique architectural style of NOVOZYBKOV-ZLYNKOVSKY was once famous throughout Russia. Architects were invited to build houses in Borovsk and Moscow. At the same time we will learn who the Rabes are, where the slave cemetery is located in Zlynka, and why it is called so

We'll visit the nalewka factory and of course we'll have a tasting

• 14-30 We will make a short stop in the ghost village Novy Varin, a zone of evacuation due to the Chernobyl disaster. We will see the abandoned houses with amazing moldings, icons, and household items
• 17-30 Sightseeing tour in Bryansk + shopping;
• 18:30 - End of the tour program at the Bryansk railway station.
• Recommended train for return to Moscow train No. 742 B, Bryansk - Moscow, departure at 19:10, arrival in Moscow at 23:15. Tourists buy train tickets on their own, for an additional fee.
  

1. Target audience:

Adults from 27 years old or families with children over 8 years old;

2. Seasonality All-season tour

3. Tour itinerary duration:

2 days / 1 night. Duration of stay at the hotel for this tour - 1 day. Checkout time at the hotel is 12:00.Settlementssightseeing rout rout rout: Bryansk, Pogarsky district (s.Yudinovo) Starodubsky district (Ostrich farm + s.Elionka) Novozybskovsky district (Novozybkov + s.Zlynka)

6. The cost of the tour and what is included in the cost of the tourfor children: 7000 p (5900 for children)

Included:

• accommodation 1 night in the hotel "Green City" (Novozybkov);
• food 2 breakfasts; 2 lunches; 1 dinner
• sightseeing program (including museum tickets)
• work of an accompanying person and guides.